LIBYAN OPERATIONS
INTERFERENCE BY
SANDSTORM
(Rec. 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 20.
A Cairo communique states:
"Throughout yesterday a severe sandstorm interfered with both air and land activities. In conditions of very poor visibility, our fighting patrols and mobile columns operated in the general area south of the line Timimi-Mekili.
"Several parties of the enemy, including tanks, were engaged about ten miles south and south-east of Timimi, but the enemy withdrew after an exchange of artillery fire.
"Further westwards, enemy columns appeared to be north of the TimimiMekili Road, although Mekili itself was again found to be strongly held." —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 8
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